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April 6, 2007
Hasfari’s ‘House’ Moves to Laguna
As Laguna Playhouse Executive Director Richard Stein walked down Dizengoff Street in Tel Aviv during a trip to Israel last December, he was struck by a Bauhaus-style building famously used in the city decades ago.
Minimalist Keret Reads
Etgar Keret is coming to Los Angeles, but fear not. This brilliant young Israeli writer of his generation, a skillful satirist who seems to have a knack for expressing the emotions, thoughts and language of his peers, has not gone completely Hollywood.
Sacco, Vanzetti and the Not-So-Great United States
Exactly 80 years after Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were sentenced to death in Boston on April 9, 1927, a documentary on the trial that shook the world is opening in American theaters.\n
Turn Memory Into Blessing
Holidays bring up feelings and memories about people who have died. They also offer opportunities to address unresolved issues. The four Yizkor services and the themes of their days correspond to different tasks of mourning.
Becoming American
I\’m thinking of the Southern accent, the country-club attitude, the ship-captain husband, trying to figure out how any of that fits in with a story about a family from the Jewish ghetto of Esfahan. \”She might have told me,\” I confess. \”I didn\’t listen because it didn\’t make sense.\”
Mideast Conflict Displays Parallels to N. Ireland
The Middle East peace process, frozen to the point of lifelessness, may be starting to thaw.
Divestment Doubts
To the extent that you closely monitor the hearings of the Committee on Judiciary of the California State Assembly — and you know you do — you might want to keep an especially close eye on the upcoming vote on AB 221.
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